Without Law 18 by Eric Vall (most difficult books to read .txt) 📗

more as the NK troops yelled in their native tongue and pummeled the vehicle with blasts.

“The bus isn’t going to hold up much longer,” I said. “That plasma will go right through it in no time.”

“I have an idea,” Bailey said.

“What is it?” I asked.

“Lift me up,” the blonde hippie said, and she gestured up to the windows of the bus. “I can shoot through the windows and get them. They won’t expect shots to come from above.”

“Good idea,” I told her with a nod.

“You’re going to use your Barrett?” Paige asked. “Isn’t that a bit close range?”

“I don’t have to use my Barrett,” Bailey noted. “I can use my plasma gun. It’ll be quick, but I’m still the best shot, even with a pistol.”

“Fair enough.” Anna set her lips and nodded.

I looked at the girls. Bailey would need some cover, but I was the only one tall enough to get the petite blonde up to the window. The other girls would have to lay down some cover fire to surprise the soldiers and throw them off. If they thought we were going to shoot at them from the sides of the bus, then they wouldn’t even be looking up high enough to see our sniper come for them.

“You three are going to need to lay some cover fire,” I told them.

“Right,” Anna agreed. “Where do you want us?”

“Paige and Tara go to the right,” I explained. “Anna, go to the left.”

“Aye, aye, Captain.” Tara smiled, then her face got serious as she looked at the girls. “Let’s do this.”

The bus continued to rock slightly, and it made a terrible creaking noise as it moved. We needed to work quickly.

There may only be two soldiers on the other side of our cover, but they were hitting the bus hard, and those plasma weapons could cause serious damage. I wouldn’t be surprised if they’d melted through one side of the bus already. If they shot in the same vicinity a few times, then the metal would crumble fairly quickly, and if that was the case, then only one layer of metal would stand between them and us.

“Wait for my signal,” I told the girls, and they rushed to the sides of the bus to get into position.

Once the girls were in place, I looked over to them, and each of them nodded in turn so I knew they were good to go.

“Are you ready?” I asked Bailey.

“As ready as I’ll ever be,” she told me with a small smile, and she pulled her plasma gun off her hip. “Let’s go.”

“Step into my hand,” I told her as I knelt down and linked my fingers together.

Bailey placed her hiking boot on my interlaced fingers, then she grabbed my shoulder with one hand as I easily lifted her up until she could swing her leg around.

Once Bailey was securely on my shoulders, I held onto her legs to steady her, then I nodded at Anna, Paige, and Tara before I stood up and slowly walked over to the bus window.

The rest of the girls started to fire as best as they could, but they had to make sure to avoid putting themselves in danger. If they got hit with one of those plasma weapons, it could be deadly, so they held their guns out as far as they could and fired at the NK soldiers on the other side of the bus.

Once the cover fire was going, I felt Bailey adjust herself on my shoulders. The bus continued to shake slightly as the NK soldiers retaliated, but after a moment, everything stopped.

“Got ‘em!” Bailey shouted.

“Are you sure?” Anna asked.

“Yeah,” the blonde chuckled. “There were only two of them. It didn’t take long.”

Anna carefully peered around the bus, then she shrugged and glanced back at us.

“Well, alright, then,” the redhead said. “Good thing it was quick, because we need to get going.”

“We do,” I agreed, and I helped Bailey down from my shoulders. “Good job.”

“Thanks,” the blonde said, and her face was flushed, though I wasn’t sure if it was from the exhilaration of the fight or my compliment.

“Should we search them?” Paige asked.

I thought for a second. If we took the time to go over them, it meant using up precious seconds we needed to pull off our plan, but then again, if we didn’t search them, it was possible we could miss something important.

“Go,” I told Paige. “Quickly. I want it done by the time I pull the jeep around.”

“On it,” the brunette said, and she holstered her plasma gun and took off running around to the other side of the bus.

The rest of the girls piled into the jeep without saying a word, and I fired it up and pulled it around the bus and over to the bodies of the men, hopping the short cement median in the process.

“Did you find anything?” I asked as Paige opened the door and hopped in.

“Not really.” Paige shook her head.

“Alright,” I said, and as soon as she shut the door, I pressed on the gas and pulled past the screening area and onto the Air Force Base.

“At least we didn’t waste any time looking, though,” Paige added.

“That was the plan,” I agreed. “It was better to check in case there was something we could use, or some orders for Minji to decipher, but if there was nothing, then I didn’t want to spend the extra time looking.”

“Yeah, better to be safe than sorry,” Anna said. “But in this case we didn’t have a lot of time to spare.”

“Exactly.” I nodded.

“Alright,” Paige said as she looked around at the Base. “We’ll have to look around, the Captain didn’t know exactly where they were located.”

“He said they were by the